New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-29
voRcEsTER FEsT1yAL-sECoND DAx.
xux CHORUS DISAPPOINTING IN THE BERLIoz
MusIC-MoRx OF THE sOLOIsrs.

~ux CHORUS DISAPPOINTING IN THE BRRLioz
MUsIc-woRx OF THE soLoIsrs
WORCESTER. Sept % tSpeetap. The choral forces
sued this evening The most ambitious feature of the
festivai scheme Berlioz's Dsmnaton OF Faust Last
night their singing admirable, their tone 90 nun
end musical their attack prompt, their enthusiasm
% nspirtng, that NEWCOMER could scarcely refrain
from wishing that the Oratoro Society had been In the
audience to take a few notes Tonight the same New
Yorker might have left the hall in gate OF compa-
cency touching his home institution ad In sceptie
frame Of mind coucerung the theory which has some
times bean that urban life is hot conducive to
choral singing Evidently the Worcester chorus is not
yet tuned mp the key Of the modern style of music
Bruchs Arminus with its Mendessobaian echoes and
its phrases suggestive Of Gluek to their taste
The chorsters sang poorly. 10 poorly indeed that 1t
Kindness net to go into particulars a.ut their part OF
the performance
That the audience listened the end without signs Of
impatenee was solely due TO the hne work OF the
orchestra and the singing Of Theodore Toed and Max
Heinrich There another solo singer and she was
none than Nine Giula valda. but her interpreta
ton of the music which Berioz put into the mouth Of
Goethe's Marguerite great disappointment, not
only the dilettanu in the audience but to nearly
everybody. BcrlOz may not have reached the ideal in
his deiineaton Of Faust but he painted Marguerite with
loving hand filing her music with the tendercst sent
ment, not pulsation of which conveyed to the
audience by Madame valda 1t was barren, cold. life
les performance her part without feeling. without
hexbiity without elegance valda has been announced
a. the Of the festival and the disappointment is
therefore felt all the more keenly Mr. Toedt who not
only eff the honors of the evening but sang with
exquisite finish Of style and ovelness of sentiment
on the contrary only substitute who returned from
European trip only FIVE days ago and was metaphor
caly dragged to Worcester to nil vacancy caused by
Aivary's very extraordinary Illness" the Official
publication Of the festival Describes it. sickness which
II whispered OUT OF the refusal Of the directors TO
add Oo TO the contract price after an agreement had
been reached
dramatic fire. but carried the realism OF Ills deeiamaory
style little too far In the Ride TO He'll thereby de
esque piece Of music Beroz wanted 1t to be aweinspir
ing. not mirth provoking.
Madame Pappenhea had preceded Madame yalda Ia
from Oberon asd the hackneyed Angels Serenade "
a afternoon concert and set everybody to wonder
the festival The vocal power aud intensity and the
breadth of style Which characterized her singing
fnrve echoes were after tones which
occasionally thrilled II they did not charm, but though
the spirit was willing the fesh was weak
third Psalm was en- the programme for the
afternoon but wss emitted ana the y, wed.
Dream played instead This episode Furnished
another evidence OF tho want OF serious
purpose in the management OF the iest;
TO be the nonarrival of the orchestral parts of
the psalm. Only one version Of the composition has
who got the parts Lepse from Carl Rcnecke several
years These parts have never been printed
and as Schubert composed the. psalm, for
Interesting TO learn what the managers or director
Of the festival had in mind when they announced
Thonass in time for Fridays matinee The or
chesal numbers in the afternoon were wagners Faust
Gade's minor symphony. Mr. Giese. OF Boston, won
popular success with trivial vioonceiio solo H. K X